Comments for Woulda Coulda Shouldahttps://wouldashoulda.com
"Maybe all we can hope to do is end up with the right regrets."Sat, 14 Sep 2019 21:04:59 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.6Comment on Mama Grizzly mode, activated by Pharmgirlhttps://wouldashoulda.com/2019/09/11/mama-grizzly-mode-activated/#comment-239161
Sat, 14 Sep 2019 21:04:59 +0000https://wouldashoulda.com/?p=10134#comment-239161Potentially drawing fire here (see screen name), but chances are pretty good that the issues go higher up than the store level. The corporate staffing model is often inadequate for volume. Sadly, the folks behind the counter become jaded. I don’t know the requirements for techs in GA, but many states will allow for little more than a pulse and a background check. (File under “you get what you pay for”). Walgreens encourages accredidation for its support staff which raises the bar somewhat. However, they have similar issues with the staffing model. I’ve never been happier to be at the end of my career.
]]>Comment on Mama Grizzly mode, activated by Janicehttps://wouldashoulda.com/2019/09/11/mama-grizzly-mode-activated/#comment-239160
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 16:58:04 +0000https://wouldashoulda.com/?p=10134#comment-239160My daughter went to her Tinytown CVS a while back, to refill birth control RX, and they said ‘we have you on file as a male patient’ and basically challenged her, right there, while she was in line for a REFILL. *eye roll here* RX has since been transferred to Walgreens. Understandably.
]]>Comment on Mama Grizzly mode, activated by Roseannehttps://wouldashoulda.com/2019/09/11/mama-grizzly-mode-activated/#comment-239159
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 15:24:29 +0000https://wouldashoulda.com/?p=10134#comment-239159I agree CVS is awful. I have stories to tell about the one we use and it would sound almost like your story here.

Congrats on having a wonderful daughter!

]]>Comment on Mama Grizzly mode, activated by Chuckhttps://wouldashoulda.com/2019/09/11/mama-grizzly-mode-activated/#comment-239158
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 00:24:27 +0000https://wouldashoulda.com/?p=10134#comment-239158That pharmacy’s new motto is now “Fear the Mir.” :) Glad you got everything worked out and hope the rest of Chickadee’s semester is prescription-stress free.
]]>Comment on Mama Grizzly mode, activated by Tenessahttps://wouldashoulda.com/2019/09/11/mama-grizzly-mode-activated/#comment-239157
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 14:31:16 +0000https://wouldashoulda.com/?p=10134#comment-239157My son as ADD and our insurance only covers NAME BRAND meds. Impossible to find. The first time I went to get the script filled after our insurance change, CVS told me they don’t stock that but would I like for them to tell me of a nearby CVS that does? Sure, says I. They give me a CVS that they purportedly look up on their computer that stocked Name Brand ADD med. Off I go to this CVS Ive never been to and the lady at the counter looked at me, looked at the script, asked me who it was for, looked at me, looked at the script, asked for my ID, looked at my ID, looked at me, looked at the script, “Have you ever been here before?” To which I answered that no I had not and explained why I had come to them. She tells me to wait while she talks to her manager. After some long period of time the lady and her manager come over and look and the script, look at me, look at my ID, look at the script, etc. until the manager says to me, “We don’t stock name brands. Would you like me to tell you of a CVS that does?” I took the list which was THE SAME as the one my own CVS gave me. Third CVS was a similar experience. So I went back to mine and just said fill it. They said they don’t stock it. This time I asked them if they could order it. They said they could but it would be a few days… This after all the hullaballoo about getting the doctor to write the script, going to pick it up, and stuff. Our pediatrician does not fill out scripts three months in advance, unfortunately, so we drive across town to his office once a month. It’s super.
]]>Comment on Mama Grizzly mode, activated by Mirhttps://wouldashoulda.com/2019/09/11/mama-grizzly-mode-activated/#comment-239156
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:32:46 +0000https://wouldashoulda.com/?p=10134#comment-239156From my meds? That’s where I get my will to live…. ;)
]]>Comment on Mama Grizzly mode, activated by Mary K. in Rockporthttps://wouldashoulda.com/2019/09/11/mama-grizzly-mode-activated/#comment-239155
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:23:15 +0000https://wouldashoulda.com/?p=10134#comment-239155Now we know where you got the resolve to declutter your house!
]]>Comment on Mama Grizzly mode, activated by Annahttps://wouldashoulda.com/2019/09/11/mama-grizzly-mode-activated/#comment-239154
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 11:52:12 +0000https://wouldashoulda.com/?p=10134#comment-239154My daughter has Lyme, requiring long-term prescriptions of antibiotics, and CVS has been terrible both in Maryland where we used to live and when we moved to PA. It’s like, You’re a pharmacy, filling a prescription shouldn’t exactly be a curve ball. But it’s a headache every single time.
]]>Comment on Mama Grizzly mode, activated by Karen Scotthttps://wouldashoulda.com/2019/09/11/mama-grizzly-mode-activated/#comment-239153
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:55:58 +0000https://wouldashoulda.com/?p=10134#comment-239153We have had remarkably similar experiences, with a pharmacy with the same initials, in Georgia. In Central NY, where my parents live, the same chain has been lovely and helpful and I could kiss them.

In other news while your baby is going to graduate my oldest is 29 and my younger is living in Japan for 5 years now and where did the time go? I remember how much I loved reading about your kids when they were little. Even though my kids are older it still made me feel not so alone. She must have inherited her rockstarness (is too a word) from her mom. You’ve done a great job parenting, and no it never does get easier, but only because they are your whole heart walking around somewhere else on the planet.

Also, for the record? I always loved first day of school shoe pictures.

]]>Comment on Mama Grizzly mode, activated by Sarahhttps://wouldashoulda.com/2019/09/11/mama-grizzly-mode-activated/#comment-239152
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 02:22:14 +0000https://wouldashoulda.com/?p=10134#comment-239152
Congratulations to your soon to be graduate and her forgetful mom.
Honestly, realizing you’ve forgotten something is at least halfway to finding the piece of paper you wrote the reminder on.]]>It’s like all my online worlds are colliding today.

I’ve been following your blog since Chickadee was about 6, and we had a comment conversation about 10 years ago where I recommended some math resources for Monkey.

Anyway, you might really like a podcast / secret Facebook group / online ADHD coaching group called ADHD ReWired.
I got my ADHD diagnosis about 6 or 7 years ago, (turning 40 next week), suspect I live somewhere on the autism spectrum, and am eternally grateful that ADHD meds come with up to a year’s worth of refills in Canada. 🇨🇦

Congratulations to your soon to be graduate and her forgetful mom.

Honestly, realizing you’ve forgotten something is at least halfway to finding the piece of paper you wrote the reminder on.